Open Access

Open-access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.

—Peter Suber, A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access

What is Open Access?

Open Access Week

October 21 – 27, 2024

Stay tuned for updates regarding this year's Open Access Week. Take advantage of workshops that happen all year round:

Events, workshops and more

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Funding agencies and Open Access

Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) and Tri-Agency policies

More about funding policies >

Support for Open Access publishing at Concordia

Spectrum, choosing journals, article-processing charges, memberships, discounts and authors' rights

Find the right support >

Finding Open Access content

Search engines, repositories and directories

Where to find OA content >

Concordia's Open Access initiatives

Spectrum Research Repository

Concordia's open access research repository

Open Educational Resources

Support for adopting/creating OER

Concordia University Press

Non-profit publisher of peer-reviewed books

Concordia's Open Data

Freely available, centralized catalogue of university-wide data